Lebanon – L’Orient Le Jour, Sept. 04, 2026
Two Syrians and two Lebanese were released and transferred to Lebanon by the ICRC on Friday morning.
SOUTH LEBANON — Israel released four detainees this morning, two Lebanese and two Syrians, who were transferred to Lebanon via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), announced the humanitarian organization in a statement.
They are two Lebanese nationals, Hussein Abdallah Ayache and Ali Hassan Shour, and two Syrians, Assaad Mahmoud Haske and Sam Ibrahim al-Samad, reports our correspondent in the South. They had previously been captured and taken hostage by Israeli forces from southern Lebanon.
Another detainee, Malek Ghazi, who had been abducted by Israel in October 2025 in the Rashaya region, was released early Thursday morning.
The convoy was seen passing through the Lebanese Army checkpoint at Aamrieh, the last one before the Israeli-occupied “buffer zone” in the South.
